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Alphalaw - the preferred legal software solution

Asdon Group incorporating Nivotec are suppliers of Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition solutions for Healthcare, Legal, Government & Commercial businesses throughout UK & Ireland. We provide a full range of IT services and are Nuance Partners and an approved Philips Master Digital Centre. We offer a highly personalised service with full Training, Installation and Support Services.

The descriptions below are based mainly on the information provided by the suppliers themselves. This page last updated on May 18th.

AlphaLaw has been providing legal software for over 25 years. The company has over 1,600 firms throughout the UK and Ireland using their systems - probably more users than any other supplier. Users range from the large multi-branch, city centre style of firm to the high street practice and single practitioner. The products available under the AlphaLaw name are as follows:

AlphaLAW-esprit is the legal professions most widely used integrated accounting, time recording, reporting and document production system, specifically designed for the smaller high street firm or sole practitioner.

AlphaLAW-vantage is the fully integrated Legal Practice Management System, for the larger and multi office firm of up to 300 fee earners. The component applications interconnect via a commonly shared relational database.

AlphaLAW-Vantages new CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) facility integrates computers and telephones to offer law firms a new way to boost firm productivity and efficiency.

The new AlphaLAW-Vantage ePost facility is an integrated document scanning and management system for firms wanting to manage inbound and outgoing correspondence. This facility, coupled with a scanner, enables a law firm to transform paper documents into information that is easily integrated into AlphaLAW-Vantage applications, such as Time Recording and Matter Enquiry.

AlphaLAW-Uno is a Microsoft .Net based Case Management system that provides extensive and advanced workflow functionality for law firms, enabling the building of complex document based collaborative solutions. This is a total redesign of case management in both approach and functionality and is a result of the experience gained over many, many years in designing and supporting such systems.
AlphaLaw has been taken over by Iris Legal.

Asdon Group is the leading provider of Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition Solutions in Ireland. They are a Microsoft Gold Partner & Philips Master Digital Centre with offices in Lisburn and Dublin. As a long established leading digital dictation supplier they provide implementation, integration and project management service to Legal and Healthcare users in Ireland North and South. Their solutions cater for installations across small, medium and enterprise sectors.

Axxia is a leading UK supplier with a range of software called Arista. There are also 20 Arista users in Eire and 2 in Northern Ireland using the full range of Axxia FED and Case Manager software.
See main entry for Axxia here.
Axxia has been taken over by LexisNexis

eXpd8 case management software is an intuitive software interface which pulls together all work done on a particular case or matter or project by any member of the team and in any file format. The software allows users to find information quickly when needed, regardless of who created it or when. It integrates well with Microsoft office and also includes a scanning functionality and automation of brief generation. There is now also solicitors accounts software available which integrates with the case management software to provide a seamless flow of activity on a clients file to the ledger card, avoiding duplicate data entry and speeding up the process so that work done can quickly become billable hours. The system automatically creates its own fully auditable trail on each file. You can view a video overview of the software on the site.

Fanore Software, based in Fanore, County Clare, provide publishing and management tools. In particular, they offer a simple web management suite suitable for the legal profession that combines easy to use content production tools requiring basic computer skills (word processing etc.) and a full auditing trail that enables suitably qualified personel to review and approve content changes before they are published online. They also provide a range of document indexing and retrieval services that can be used on an intranet. Clients include Simon McAleese, The Planning Tribunal, The Moriarty Tribunal and the Morris Tribunal. Contact David Kelly.

Harvest Software produce the popular Harvest Law management accounting software for solicitors. It is a powerful, easy to use system and is currently installed is approximately 500 solicitor firms.

Keyhouse is based in County Wicklow. Contact Brian Sweeney, 01 204 0020, email brian@keyhouse.ie. They supply an accounts system called SAM3 which is a good modern Windows-based system. There are around 120 legal firms in Ireland using the system including some large ones. They have recently taken over a case management system supplier called Lawsoft and there are plans under way to integrate the two systems.

Lawsoft is a case management system recently taken over by Keyhouse - see above.

Legal & General Software, based in Dublin, provide Lex Solicitor Accounts Software. This is compliant with Revenue and Law Society Regulations, but above all is easy to use and is supported by experienced Accounts personnel. There are now Users in every County in Ireland. They also supply Legal Precedent Software together with Computerised Requisitions On Title. Legal & General Software are also the main suppliers of customized Accounts Software for Barristers.

Legal Evolve from Documatics is Case Management Software – Designed for Solicitors by Solicitors. The system stores all the details gathered about a particular case in one centralised location. All of the necessary information can be easily retrieved at the click of a button. Storing all the information for a case in one convenient and central location allows your office to manage and organise data more efficiently. Multiple users can work on the one case in concurrence, and the CheckIn/CheckOut facility ensures that no one’s work is overridden. It has been created through years of experience in the legal industry.

Legal IT is based in Dublin and Cork and is a reseller in Ireland of TikitTFB's "Partner for Windows" suite. TikitTFB was previously TFB and is probably the largest UK provider of legal systems with around 1,000 firms using their systems. Legal IT's directors include Irish solicitor Frank Lanagan and three legal software experts.
See also notes on TikitTFB.

Opsis Ltd are an Irish company with offices in Dublin & Belfast and have been providing software solutions to the legal sector in Ireland for over 20 years. In that time OPSIS have established themselves as the number one provider of case management systems in Northern Ireland and have a fairly substantial share of the market within the Republic of Ireland. OPSIS have a client base of over 800 law firms throughout Ireland and the UK. OPSIS now offers legal accounts as well as case management software with product solutions available for sole practitioners to huge multi-national firms. The respective packages can be used independently or fully integrated to provide a comprehensive practice management system.

Small Practice System (SPS): Offers smaller and start-up firms (up to 5 users) a fully integrated accounts and case management system at an extremely affordable price.

Millennium Solo: A single user accounts system designed for sole practitioners and small firms. Affordable monthly payment options are available together with clear upgrade options as and when your firm expands.

Millennium Legal Accounts: Provides comprehensive cashier facilities for your accounts department with a wide range of management accounting reports for senior partners. Automated time recording facilities are available within the Fee Earner’s Desktop plus user friendly fee earner performance reports.

Solicitor Case Manger: A generic case management system that offers extensive document production and time recording facilities. It is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook for task & diary management.

Practice Management System (PMS): A comprehensive practice wide system offering all of the technologically advanced features the medium to larger firm requires in today’s busy legal office environment.

Weblink: An innovative on-line case tracking facility which allows firms to keep their clients and referrers fully informed on the progress of their cases 24/7, 365 days a year.
Opsis has been taken over by Iris Legal.

Relay Software Ltd distributes the "Osprey" software provided by UK legal software supplier Pracctice (see also notes on Pracctice here.) Osprey is an established and mature product. It is a fully integrated Practice Management System, which includes comprehensive accounts, time recording, document management as well as case management. Osprey Web Publisher will also allow firms to offer online case tracking. A full management suite of reports are available, with an additional custom report designer. Osprey is integrated with Microsoft Outlook for central diary. Relay have offices in Belfast and Dublin.

Solcara provides software that connects people to information that matters, when it matters most. They streamline access to critical business content, ensuring you deliver an exceptional and timely service to your customers and stakeholders in all situations. Solcara SolSearch is designed to deliver improved efficiencies and cost savings when searching for and accessing primary sources of legal information. It has become the solution of choice in the Irish legal market and supports searching of commonly used Irish resources such as Firstlaw, Westlaw.ie, Justis, PLC, The Oireachtas, The Irish Statute Book, plus many more. Additionally, Solcara SolSearch integrates searching across internal resources such as the Autonomy iManage (formerly Interwoven) document management system, the library catalogue, and other searchable resources used across the firm. It does this without the need for expensive indexing software and consultancy typically associated with other solutions. Solcara SolSearch is an essential tool for any organisation that needs easy and efficient access to information that resides in multiple locations, databases and formats. Solcara SolSearch connects to target resources and searches the existing indexes in real time. This means it does not rely upon additional and high cost indexing software. This also ensures results are consistent and up to date. Solcara SolSearch has been deployed in organisations of all sizes including major UK Government Departments, and leading law firms in the UK, Channel Islands and Ireland.

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